Captain Jagmohan Rai Chamanlal Mehta v. The State Of Maharashtra

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.4569 OF 2019 Captain Jagmohan Rai Chamanlal Mehta .... Petitioner

Versus

The State of Maharashtra .... Respondent ....

Mr. Satish Maneshinde a/w. Aditya Mehta, Pritvish Shetty, Saloni Jain i/b. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, for the Petitioner. Mr. K.V. Saste, APP for the Respondent-State. ....

CORAM : NITIN JAMDAR AND SARANG V. KOTWAL, JJ.

DATE : 07 DECEMBER 2021 P.C.

The learned Counsel for the Petitioner states that the PRADIPKUMAR PRAKASHRAO DESHMANE Petitioner will avail of the remedy of applying for discharge. He states PRADIPKUMAR PRAKASHRAO DESHMANE Date: 2021.12.08 14:49:40 +0530 that the charge-sheet has been filed on 5 March 2014 and it is likely that the application for discharge also may not be taken up on urgent basis.

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While we dispose of this Writ Petition in light of what is stated by the learned Senior Counsel for the Petitioner, we direct that 1 / 2

3.wp-4569-19.odt if the application for discharge is made within four weeks from today, the concerned Court will take up the application on a priority basis and dispose of the same within a period of eight weeks thereafter. All contentions of the Petitioner on merits are kept open. 3.

Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of in above terms. (SARANG V. KOTWAL, J.) (NITIN JAMDAR, J.) Deshmane (PS) 2 / 2